People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.

There's a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork. And it's wrong. All roads lead away from Ankh-Morpork, but sometimes people just walk along them the wrong way.

The worst thing you can do is nothing.

There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.

Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all.

Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.

Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant ‘idiot.

...and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.

You never knew about people, like you never knew how deep a pond was because all you saw was the top.

One moment of prayer, of weak worship, confused contrition, tepid thanksgiving, or pitiful petition will bring us closer to God than all the books of theology in the world.

What she coaxed out of me was a visceral need to live, and wasn't that what fueled immortality and made it worthwhile anyway? That there were wonders still left to be uncovered?

So this is how the merchant ship won’t follow us, ” I mumbled, “They aren’t insane enough to join the party.

The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.

Years teach us days don't understand.

I always loved designing, but the context needs to be right, and have a positive perspective.

The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other finds an excuse.

Each moment spent searching is also a moment spent finding.

I've been in enough films where the studio wanted that extra little cuteness to make it sellable.